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They arrived before dawn in their thousands, filling school yards and snaking
through slums, braving the sun for hours for the chance to vote in Kenya’s
historic presidential election.

Sporadic accounts of machete attacks and marauding gangs failed to stop what
officials predicted would be a record turnout of more than 70 per cent from
the country’s 14.3 million registered voters.

After polling booths had closed, early results suggested that Uhuru Kenyatta,
the deputy prime minister, was ahead with 56 per cent, although about 90 per
cent of votes were still to be counted. Raila Odinga, the Prime Minister and

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Kenyans go to the polls

March 6 2013

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Women try to get a glimpse of Odinga at the polling booth

March 6 2013 AP

Women try to get a glimpse of Odinga at the polling booth

March 6 2013 AP

Queues snake through Kangemi, a Nairobi slum

March 6 2013 Jerome Starkey

Voters were patient and relaxed in Nairobi despite the queues

March 6 2013 Jerome Starkey

Voters told The Times they had learned the lessons of 2007's violence

March 6 2013 Jerome Starkey

A Masai woman casts her vote in the general election in Ilbissil, Kenya

March 6 2013 AP

One of the voters in Mombasa who was attacked

March 6 2013 Joseph Okanga/Reuters

People queue to vote in Kakamega, in the west of Kenya

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Journalists look on as Raila Odinga casts his ballot in Kibera, Nairobi

March 6 2013 AFP/Getty Images

A woman votes in Ilbissil, Kenya

March 6 2013 AP

Kenyans wait to cast their vote at a polling station in Kibera, Nairobi

March 6 2013 Reuters

Voters wait at dawn at a primary school in Archers Post, northern Kenya